A rare blog post. What the heck, I'm in the mood to tell a story.
So tonight at dance I had one of those rare, awesome, special moments while teaching. These types of moments I've only experienced a handful of times as a teacher and the moments that every teacher/choreographer wishes they could capture all the time.
I was presenting a new song, a new dance, a new costume idea to my class of teenage dancers. I could go into why this is an important moment, how opinionated students can be sometimes, how I feel like students don't understand the power of their words or just how much teachers actually care about their students but I will save all that. In this particular moment as I explained my idea, in its entirety, my students were excited.
Let me be more clear, the students were thrilled at the concept I was going for. Everyone of them were excited to the point that they were smiling throughout, working hard, and expressing their desire to just learn more and more. It's hard to put into words just how powerful of a moment it is as a teacher and as a choreographer. This isn't specific to teaching dance either. Anybody who has lead any group for any length of time knows how special of a moment it is: when every single person you are leading not only buys in to what it is your wanting to give/teach/sell etc. but are genuinely excited about what you're giving/asking them and are eager to work their ass of for you to make your idea a reality. To have a group of people passionately support you and help you achieve something. well, that's just something special.
I'm not sure if this brief story really does it justice but I thought I'd share.
As an aside to this story, I obviously am writing on a blog I don't normally write on and in logging on tonight I see a comment was left on a post I made over 2 years ago. an anonymous student commented on how I helped them referencing my post about leaving KDA. I haven't worked there for some time and I don't even know who wrote it, but it sure makes me happy and feel like I'm doing something right.
It's been a good day.
